Chalk up two more awards for SVS

Since launching in March of 2006, Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) has been accepted with open arms in the IT community. And despite being a business application, the consumer market has embraced it, having downloaded the free for personal use version more than 200,000 times.

At the end of 2007, SVS received even more recognition by two IT industry publications – InfoWorld and Government Computer News – as one of the best products of the year.

For two years running InfoWorld has given SVS a Technology of the Year Award. This comes on the heels of SVS winning an application virtualization roundup where Randall Kennedy said that SVS “has long provided one of the easiest to use and most flexible application virtualization platforms. Its effortless handling of headless services and other complex application types have made SVS the darling of the IT skunkworks crowd, as evidenced by the popularity of the Juice online developer community.”

Being named as one of the products that rocked the boat in 2007 was no small feat when you consider how many products GCN reviews annually.
It seems like everyone is talking about the “V” word and what it will mean to businesses in 2008. In fact, David Strom named virtualization as one of the five disruptive technologies to watch in 2008 and mentioned that application virtualization has many things going for it, stating:

“…users can work from any Internet-connected computer, such as those at an airport or copy shop. Finally, as an IT shop rolls out new internally developed applications, they can be quickly deployed with centralized access controls only to those users who need to run them.”

Jim Grusendorf, a senior network specialist with accounting firm, Hudson, has used SVS to help eliminate application conflict with some of his company’s tax software, saying:

“I have to support versions that are 10-12 years old. The laptops would just collect these old versions as I installed them because I didn’t really have time to go through and uninstall all the old ones first, so you’d get conflicting DLLs and errors. With SVS, I have a batch file that I put together that when I create a new layer all I have to do is add the name of the layer to a couple of text files. The batch file runs when the user logs on and it checks to see if there are any old versions that need to be removed and new versions that need to be added."

If you’d like to talk with Jim about his story, feel free to contact Symantec PR.